Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier is the nom-de-plume Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris(born in La Chaux-de-Fonds/Switzerland; died 27. August 1965 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin/France) After studying painting and architecture at the local École d'Art, he initially worked for Josef Hofmann in Vienna, where he also made the acquaintance of Adolf Loos. Another important influence came when he was working in Paris in 1909 for over a year in the practice of Auguste Perret, a pioneering exponent of building with reinforced concrete using steel. During this period, he also visited the architect and urban planner Tony Garnier in Lyon. It was not long before Le Corbusier was focusing on modern reinforced concrete architecture. In 1917, he moved to Paris. Since he only had a few architectural commissions at the time, he spent much of his time painting, producing mainly still life's. In 1919, Le Corbusier joined the painter Amédée Ozenfant and the poet Paul Dermée to found the journal "L'Esprit Nouveau", in which he first began using his pseudonym in 1920. In 1922, Le Corbusier produced an urban planning concept for a Ville Contemporaine - a "contemporary city with a population of three million". In 1925, he collaborated with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret on designing a two-storied pavilion for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The avant-garde architecture of that pavilion was complemented by furnishings of functional design and paintings by Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz and others. By 1927, Le Corbusier was among the leading practitioners of the New Architecture designing the housing for the Weißenhof Settlement in Stuttgart. Around 1942, he formulated his "Modulor" theory, which was Le Corbusier's term for a system of proportion based on the Golden Mean that he used in his architectural designs, especially in his large-scale urban planning projects. Intended to facilitate architecture on a human scale based on an objective system, the Modular still remains one of the most controversial of Le Corbusier's theoretical approaches to architecture. A copy of Le Corbusier's famous Modular measuring tape has been re-issued by Vitra

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... A construction which for us stands very much in the tradition, and indeed hope, of the original exhibition. The aed Stuttgart tour "Zukunftslabor Weißenhofsiedlung" takes place on Wednesday 17th September at 7pm. All are welcome, but advance registration...

... A 165 m long, 24 m deep and 56 m high block of 337 apartments in the southern quarter of Marseille, La Cité Radieuse represented Le Corbusier's vision of the future of urban living. In 2008 Jean-Marc Drut, resident of Apartment Number 50 invited Jasper ... And then opened the display to the public. A sort of positive antithesis to George Orwell's (in)famous Room 101. In 2010 Jean-Marc Drut repeated the exercise with Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and...

... Or modern. And in terms of the name Art Deco: as Alastair Duncan rightly points out, by the time the phrase was coined the movement was largely over10; consequently, one must consider l'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes ... But of course being an Art Deco wake, and despite the best efforts of Le Corbusier and Konstantin Melnikov, it was a very decadent wake. And in the words of Roger Gilman "...the most arresting...

... In addition, and in many ways more significantly, Wilde+Spieth also used IMM Cologne 2013 to launch three new products: CU! by Avinash Shende, TG1 by Thore Garbers and Typus by Edelhoff & Nettesheim. It seemed therefore obvious to take the opportunity ... You're also launching four Eiermann classics in hues from the Le Corbusier "Les Couleurs" collection. Why the Le Corbusier colours? Thomas Gerber: Because it all passes so well together. When you...

... It's all show and deliberate misinformation being our war cry. And so the exhibition L'Italia di Le Corbusier currently showing at the MAXXI in Rome is not the sort of show we really want to see presented. Because it seems to imply that Italy played a ... Which could all undermine many of our arguments..... Although for many Le Corbusier's only substantial link with Italy is the licensing of his furniture designs to Cassina; Charles-Edouard...

... A shopping oasis strewn with the cheapest Le Corbusier LC2 copies we believe we have ever seen. That "Bauhaus Tel Aviv" isn't, is slowly being understood. But then the architects responsible never pretended it was. Popular convention has resulted in the ... The chairs in the airport devalue Le Corbusier's canon and his contribution to 20th century design. That the state controlled Israel Airports Authority have chosen such chairs for Ben Gurion...

... And Le Corbusier certainly didn't kit out his 1950s social housing with his own furniture designs just because IKEA had yet to be founded. For us the distinction is important as it defines the motivation for creating the furniture and as such underlines the...